The type of appropriate
inspection for a commercial property depends whether the building
is being purchased for occupation,
purchased for investment or on the basis of a lease commitment.
The
inspection Stilings Chartered Surveyors can undertake can
take the form of a Building Survey where the way in which
the building is built and its state of repair are fully
documented with advice given on any remedial works which are
necessary.
Building surveys can be carried out of all types of commercial
property, whether offices, shops, factories or warehouses.
Alternatively the inspection can be with
a view to producing a Schedule of Condition. |
The
Schedule of Condition is useful
to an ingoing tenant or landlord as a snapshot listing
of the condition of the internal and external fabric and fittings
of a building as at the date of occupation, thereby setting
the benchmark or standard of condition in which the landlord
will expect the property to be returned at the end of the
agreed lease term.
An inspection of the property at the end
of the term can be used to create a Schedule of Dilapidations
this being a listing
of deficiencies present at the end of a lease term, and
for which the outgoing tenant is liable. It therefore follows
that if the tenant cannot prove that a defect was already
there at the start of the lease, by way of a Schedule of
Condition, it is likely that they may not be able to avoid
the bill for repairs at the end of a lease. |
